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|content=Many are confused by my frequent response to bizarre official narratives is “I don’t know what’s going on. But I do know that things don’t seem to add up.”
 
Many of you who know things don’t add up claim you know why.
 
Many of you who wish to stay sane claim things add up.
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|content=To me it’s confusing how you can claim to know. The defining feeling of our time is non-resolution and nearly infinite delay of actual understanding.
 
I have called this the “[[The Locrian Era|Locrian era]].” All other western scales/modes have both the 5th &amp; a tonic for resolution. Except Locrian.
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|content=Nobody really gravitates to Locrian to be honest. But learning to recognize it as a metaphor for COVID origins, Inflation calculation, NORAD shoot downs, Bizarre failures of journalism, Vaccine misrepresentation, Social Media control by govt. etc helps me:
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|content=@antonabramov I like a good bullfight as much as the next guy. And the flat 2nd is even more powerful with a major third a la North Africa. But that is not the locrian challenge. We do accept the Tritone in a 7th chord. It’s just a challenge to understand what it means. Perfect for this era.
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|content=If you’re a musician try playing Locrian songs. Now tell me they don’t fit this time: unsettled, frustrated, lacking a convincing center or home. Not yet minor doom, nor major brightness and flexibility. But floating in limbo in twisted modernity.
 
[[The Locrian Era|This era, to me, seems Locrian.]]
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|content=@GrizTez You are thinking above the “Tonic”. You are stuck with three gaping wholesteps below it. The price to be paid is that imbalance of the above and below.
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|content=There are no popular melodies in Locrian. It’s a theoretical scale to make the system look complete. The 5th is the brightest part of natural overtones. So when you lower the 5th you get uncontrollable minor second dissonances each time played. Avoid 5th — and you’re in Phrygian.
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== Related Pages ==
 
* [[Algorithmic Fun House]]
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]]
* [[Managed Reality TM]]
* [[Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making]]


[[Category:Ericisms]]
[[Category:Ericisms]]
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Latest revision as of 05:25, 5 March 2026

Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Many are confused by my frequent response to bizarre official narratives is “I don’t know what’s going on. But I do know that things don’t seem to add up.”

Many of you who know things don’t add up claim you know why.

Many of you who wish to stay sane claim things add up.

1:22 PM · May 24, 2023
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

To me it’s confusing how you can claim to know. The defining feeling of our time is non-resolution and nearly infinite delay of actual understanding.

I have called this the “Locrian era.” All other western scales/modes have both the 5th & a tonic for resolution. Except Locrian.

1:22 PM · May 24, 2023
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

Nobody really gravitates to Locrian to be honest. But learning to recognize it as a metaphor for COVID origins, Inflation calculation, NORAD shoot downs, Bizarre failures of journalism, Vaccine misrepresentation, Social Media control by govt. etc helps me:

1:22 PM · May 24, 2023
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

*[For some reason, I can’t edit the first tweet in this thread where the world “by” is supposed to be “that”. Apologies. But
..It’s twitter
.]

1:28 PM · May 24, 2023


Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

If you’re a musician try playing Locrian songs. Now tell me they don’t fit this time: unsettled, frustrated, lacking a convincing center or home. Not yet minor doom, nor major brightness and flexibility. But floating in limbo in twisted modernity.

This era, to me, seems Locrian.

3:17 PM · Mar 27, 2021
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

@GrizTez You are thinking above the “Tonic”. You are stuck with three gaping wholesteps below it. The price to be paid is that imbalance of the above and below.

3:27 PM · Mar 27, 2021
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Anton Abramov

There are no popular melodies in Locrian. It’s a theoretical scale to make the system look complete. The 5th is the brightest part of natural overtones. So when you lower the 5th you get uncontrollable minor second dissonances each time played. Avoid 5th — and you’re in Phrygian.

8:19 PM · Mar 27, 2021
Eric profile picture.jpg
Eric Weinstein

@antonabramov I like a good bullfight as much as the next guy. And the flat 2nd is even more powerful with a major third a la North Africa. But that is not the locrian challenge. We do accept the Tritone in a 7th chord. It’s just a challenge to understand what it means. Perfect for this era.

8:22 PM · Mar 27, 2021

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